SafeContractor membership?

[SJD]

Can you spilt out materials to get an idea of the time income?

Very roughly, £3k labour.

I could easily spend (say) a week of time jumping through the hoops to get the accreditation, add in the membership fee as well, and I'd have spent (say) £1.5k for the sake of £3k of income. So I'd have to put my rates up for this customer by 50% to recover the outlay.

The thing is, there is no long-term guarantee of keeping the business, and could make the outlay only to find the agent switches to someone else.

The more I think about it, the more I think I'll just decline, and just explain it doesn't fit my business plans.

 

[Octopus]

Based on my turnover that's well under 10% so easy to replace

 

[SJD]

Based on my turnover that's well under 10% so easy to replace

Yes, it is well under 10% of mine as well, and I think this is what I will be doing.

 

[UNG]

Looks like a scheme where the contractor pays for the customers due diligence, what money making scheme will they think of next.

Pity there isn't a scheme for customers to register with that checks and assesses their ability and time taken to pay invoices

 

[Andy78]

I thought chas was the established scheme for this type of thing in the construction industry ? Or is it a free for all just like the CPS schemes ?

 

[stevey1983]

Its a bit like part p, lots of different bodies doing same thing, some better known than others.

 

[leo79]

If it's just the SSIP accreditation you need then you can go through Altius, this is what we did and it's £130pa.
Although we did end up paying a H&S consultant £200 to sort out all the paperwork because I just kept going round in circles.